The Textbook States That Peers Are Important for All of the Following

question 57

Multiple Choice

The textbook states that peers are important for all of the following reasons, except:

• A) students whose friends are more engaged in school are themselves more engaged.
• B) students with best friends who achieve high grades in school are more likely to show improvements in their own grades than are students who begin at similar levels of achievement but whose friends are not high achievers.
• C) peers play an especially important role in girls' decisions to take math and science classes.
• D) adolescents with an extremely high orientation toward peers tend to perform better in school.

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Definitions:

CS-UCS Intervals

The time intervals between the presentation of the conditioned stimulus (CS) and the unconditioned stimulus (UCS) in classical conditioning.

Rescorla-Wagner Model

A model of classical conditioning that proposes that learning is determined by the extent to which a unconditioned stimulus is unexpected or surprising.

Conditioned Strength

The extent to which a conditioned stimulus can elicit a strong and reliable conditioned response after associative learning has occurred.

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without any need for learning.